Fraternity-Testvériség, 1952 (30. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1952-04-01 / 4. szám
TESTVÉRISÉG 17 Lajos Kossuth, speaking in Birmingham, England, on Nov. 12, 1851, uttered these words: “Allow me, even in view of your greatness, to proclaim that I feel proud to be a Magyar.” He stated also in the same address: “No, it is not I who inspired the Hungarian people. It was the Hungarian people who inspired me. Whatever I thought and still think, whatever I felt and still feel, is but a feeble pulsation of the heart which in the breast of my people beats.” Kossuth felt that the faith, the loyalty, the valor, and all the God-given civic virtues inherent in Magyar character, were attributes which his people were eminently fitted to work out for the common good of the whole of mankind. He felt that, by virtue of these God-given attributes, his people could perform a tremendous amount of good in the divine economy of things, and for that reason he pleaded with the world that his people be given all the support the world could füve, in order that his people would be enabled to render humanity that service. What an ill-fated hour it was then in world history, when a president of the United States of America save the “go” signal to political adventurer of Thomas G. Masaryk’s ilk to unleash on the world the godless flood of all the evil forces which is Red Russia! Can ever adequate means be found, in the face of a disaster of such magnitude, to repair the harm that has been inflicted on humanity? Who knows? (14) Thomas G. Masaryk, as earlv as April 15, 1915, submitted a memorandum to Seton Watson, the vehement Pan-Slav agent, to be forwarded by him to the British Foreign Office, in which the proposed dismemberment of Hungary was set forth in full detail. Subsequentlv, the frontiers of dismembered Hungarv were drawn exactly as Masaryk had proposed, excepting a single detail. As planned originally bv Masaryk. Hungarv was to be completely riosed in bv a Slav ring. Not a single Slav was living in western Hungarv, yet Masaryk’s- plan called for a Serbo-Czeh corridor. We are told in this memorandum that: “This corridor would be formed out of the Hungarian counties of Pozsony, Sopron, Moson and Vas... This corridor would facilitate the exchange of goods between industrial Bohemia and agricultural Serbia-Croatia, and would lead from Bohemia to the Serbo-Croatian ports. The corridor would naturally be of great military importance. We must add that the plan of the corridor is accepted by many Serb and Croat politicians.” 24) The real purpose of the forming of this corridor is obvious. An iron ring would be snapped around Hungary, in which her eventual liquidation in honest to goodness Russian fashion could be performed without anyone in the outside world being the wiser. Hungary’s new frontiers were drawn up with meticulous care to insure her inevitable economic starvation. However, even the masters of the Peace Conference realized that this rude stratagem would too clearly show, their hands, and, accordingly, the plan of the corridor was dropped, and a bare economic existence of Hungary was made possible. The political provisions included in Masaryk’s memorandum deserve especial attention: “The Czeh politicians hope that they will solve the final reconstruction of the Balkans in harmony with Russia and the Allied Powers. For Bohemia and the Balkan Slavs the friendship and support of Russia are essential..; We intend to make Bohemia a monarchist state; a Czeh republic is only wanted by a few Radicals. The dynastic question could be settled in two different ways. Either the Allied Powers would give us one of their Princes, or there would be a personal union between Bohemia and Serbia if the Serb-Czeh corridor came into being. The Czeh people, we most emphatically repeat, is entirelly pro-Russian. A Russian dynasty would be in every way popular. The Czeh politicians wish in any case to create the Czeh Kingdom in entire harmony with Russia. Russia’s wishes and plans will have to be of decisive influence.” 25) (15) Kossuth stated in one of his American addresses that: “Protectorate is always the first step which Russia takes when desiring to conquer.” (Syracuse, N. Y., June 4, 1852). The Czeh formula follows the same pattern. Having worked out the problem of Hungary’s proposed dismemberment, Masaryk’s attention turned to the still unexplored field of the “liberation” of the Slovaks of northern Hungary. Here we come at longlast to “the most glorious moment in European history”, when our eyes behold “the Czehs bringing their national charter from Pittsburgh.” As it has been stated, an agreement, bearing the title “Czeho-Slovak Pact”, has been signed in Pittsburgh by a number of Czeh individuals, among them by Thomas G. Masaryk, and some Slovak citizens of the United States, on May 30, 1918. The text of the Pact reads as follows: “Czeho-Slovak Pact agreed upon in Pittsburgh, Pa., on May 30th, 1918. Representatives of the Slovak and Czeh Organizations in the United States, The Slovak League, The Czeh National Alliance and the alliance of the Czeh Catholics, discussed the Czeho-Slovak question in the presence of the chairman of the Czeho- Slovak National Council, Prof. Masaryk, and the pro24) Eugene Horváth, Diplomatic History of the Treaty of Trianon, p. 64. 25) Eugene Horváth, Diplomatic History of the Treaty of Trianon, p. 64.
